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January
22 : The Key to Enduring and Persevering - Colossians
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Take
a minute to think about enduring and persevering. What are one
or two things in your life right now that you really must endure
(whether you are enduring well or not)? Or what is a difficult
responsibility or challenge in your life through which you really
need to persevere (whether you are persevering at it rather
well right now or not)?
I’m
asking you to identify your answer before class on Sunday. Please
think about it and name it out loud to yourself. Having something
specific in mind, real to your own situation, will help you
gain the most benefit from our study this week.
On Sunday we will
continue our digging in the first chapter of Colossians, a chapter
full of rich spiritual insight. And unless you don’t have your
copy of the book yet, we’ll assume you have read Chapters 1
- 4 of Jesus + Nothing = Everything, by Tullian Tchividjian.
Here is a “tweet”
from Tullian, sent out last week to 29,500 people. If you were
in class this past Sunday morning, you probably wrote this one
down. It's worth assessing and absorbing (and for me, absorbing
means repetition). Think—or think again—about this:
One
reason we struggle in our efforts to obey is because we obsess
more over our performance for Jesus than we do over Jesus’
performance for us.
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January
22 : Last Full Sentence on Page 51
We've
asked everyone who has their copy of the book Jesus+Nothing=Everything
to read the first four chapters by this Sunday.
If you just received your copy last Sunday, you have a little
catching up to do, but that shouldn't be too hard because these
are easy-to-read and thought-stimulating chapters.
Please remember
that I asked each of you to begin every reading session during
the first couple of weeks by pondering the last full
sentence on page 51 (the sentence begins with the word
"Progress ..."). Whenever you pick up the book to
read, please go to that sentence first for a minute. It's a
startling, powerful, and key insight about God (and about you)
that is worth taking time to fully digest.
If you don't yet
have the book, we have just a few left so be sure to come to
class this week to get one.
Tom
